Tag: Penn

Penn Station

It was the one thing that we shared on muddy evenings grained in blue We awoke with the moon, soaring above the blossoming night, stars like seeds spilled across your eyes the crush of eternity unable to touch us, yet. Around cold corners and along brick buildings the poet forever writes his...

How Penn Museum’s February 3 Burial Plan Ignores Decades of Museum and Archaeological Best Practice

Penn Museum’s plan to bury “20 Black Philadelphians” on February 3, 2024, is cleverly and cynically framed by a fundamental misuse of existing practices developed not by museums, but by the communities who have been impacted by museum theft and hoarding of their ancestors. I can...